It needs to be portable because a bike can only accurately be weighed in its natural habitat, which is on the trails. I carry two in my hip pack. One good one and a back up in case it breaks and I have an emergency need to weigh my bike.
I use Pack Tools portal bike scale. I carry it where ever I go, with or without my bike because you never know when you just have to weigh a bike. It only costs $9.95 from packtools.com
I use a Feedback Sports digital scale but that might be too much for Picard. Instead, just look for a luggage scale for $5-10. That's what I used before I picked up my other scale. It works great even though the handle is very tiny.
wait (homophone for weight), picard said specifically that he wants to weight a bike, not weigh it. The best portable way to weight a bike is a rock that you find on the side of the trail. pick up as many as you need until your bike is sufficiently weighted.
Gotta' say I just don't get the bike weighing thing. Sure, pay attention to the parts you chose (weight-wise), but then assemble the bike and it ends up where it ends up. Weighing the bike after you've paid for and assembled it - like what are you going to do about it? Get rid of those $120 carbon bars for bars 10g lighter for another $150 ???
There is no way around it. After trying hundreds of bike set ups and changing things I've found if you want to ride your bike hard on challenging terrain you've got to take on the grams. Tires, rims/wheels/hubs, shocks, brakes, dropper post.
Where I try to save a bit of weight with no performance loss are by going with carbon bars, carbon rims (albeit heavy duty flavor), higher end cranks, and higher end cassettes.
Not saying my way is the right way, just that's what works for me.
My kooky neighbor recently asked me if I had a postal scale as he was mailing a letter and he thought it might be too heavy. I said "Why don't you just put another stamp on it?"
You must of lost 5 lbs on the way to the fishing scale.
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